Professor Martin Williams promoted to Associate Professor
Congratulations to Dr. Martin Williams on getting tenured and promoted to Associate Professor!
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Postdoctoral Fellow Chris Heirwegh wins prize for second best poster at PIXE 2015
Chris Heirwegh won the prize for the second best poster at the 14th International Conference on Particle-Induced X-ray Emission in Capetown, South Africa 25 Feb. -3 March 2015. The poster was titled \"Comparison of X-ray mass attenuation coefficients used in PIXE analysis of silicate minerals and glasses:, with authors C. M. Heirwegh, I. Pradler, J.L. Campbell.
Congratulations Chris!
Professor Eric Poisson receives an honorable mention from the American Publishers Awards
Professor Eric Poisson received an honorable mention from the American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence for his textbook "Gravity: Newtonian, post-Newtonian, Relativistic", co-authored with Clifford Will.
University of Guelph Physics Alumnus, Glenn Wagner MSc Guelph 1994, is one of 50 international finalists for the Global Teacher Prize
Glenn Wagner, a science and mathematics teacher at a high school in Fergus, is one of 50 people in the running for the Global Teacher Prize.
The Global Teacher Prize is a one million dollar prize awarded annually by the Varkey Foundation to "a super-special teacher", or as the tagline on Global Teacher Prize website says: "$1 Million to Celebrate One Outstanding Teacher".
The Top 10 will be announced in mid-February 2015 and the winner of the Global Teacher Prize will be announced at the Global Education and Skills Forum in Dubai on 16th March 2015.
Professor Eric Poisson's recent work "Tidal deformation of a slowly rotating black hole" was highlighted by Physical Reviews D as Editor's Suggestion
Congratulations Eric!
Please see the journal's front page to view the article as an Editor's Suggestion. The full article "Tidal deformation of a slowly rotating black hole" is also available online.
In Memoriam - Peter Egelstaff
Former resident of Guelph and; Waterloo died on the 18th of January 2015 at Parkwood Mennonite Home in Waterloo.. Dr. Peter Egelstaff was awarded the Ph.D. by the University of London in 1954. Peter was a pioneer of neutron scattering, the practice of bombarding selected material with a beam of neutrons to study the distinctive patterns they make when they bounce off. The patterns reveal information about the atomic and molecular structure and dynamics of the material. He began his professional career at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment (A.E.R.E.) Harwell, UK.
Congratulations Shaghayegh! Shaghayegh Vafaei successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis
Shaghayegh Vafaei successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on January 6, 2015: "A Molecular Dynamic Simulation-Isothermal Titration Calorimetry Study of Antimicrobial Peptide-Peptide Interaction".